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Help needed please in Garden design characteristics?

landcraftnewzealandlandcraftnewzealand Posts: 1
in Garden design
What are the soil factors I need to understand? Drainage characteristics, ph levels, texture, compaction level, soil toxicity, evidence of recent construction or soil layer disturbance, erosion level?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Go on, tell us :) 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Got a lot of brownfield, contaminated, ex industrial sites in NZ then have you?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    We're waiting on the ad @nutcutlet ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hiya Felix Birkbeck trading as Landcraft in New Zealand. 

    As you asked ... there are several  things you need to understand 

    1. This forum and website are the property of Immediate Media Co. 

    2.  Any advertisements or self promotion need to be paid for ... otherwise you are contravening the site’s T&Cs (link at the foot of this page). 

    3.  if you wish to advertise your business here’s what you need http://www.immediate.co.uk/brands/gardeners-world/#advertising

    4.  Also, while you’re looking in,  I’d love you to quote for landscaping my garden.  Can I assume that you do not charge for travelling time, fuel or overnight expenses? Also, in the interests of the planet, please arrange to travel to my garden using only a sustainable means of transport ... we are not far from a navigable river so can I suggest you use sail?  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Don't go giving him more ideas @philippa smith2  ;) ... we have enough problems with holes around here as it is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-43266095/the-sinkhole-that-swallowed-a-bus-in-norwich

     :/ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That happens a lot in Cornwall as well, all built on mine shafts.  They were supposed to be mapped but half the time the owners didn’t bother. 
    Top of our lane fell in a while back, just a hole about 3’ across but straight down, just some tarmac over it. It stayed like that for a couple of years, no one seemed to know what to do with it.  Couple of cones round the edge sufficed.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2020
    We've been promising some of our water to Pat E and her neighbours down there in NSW  ... this is obviously the way to do it ... let's get @landcraftnewzealand on the case ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think if you burrow down to Australia, you might miss him by a few miles😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    He must be prepared to travel a bit tho’ .... he’s advertising in the UK isn’t he? 😉 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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